An integrated planar optical device based on digital planar holography
A technology of optical devices and optical components, used in optical components, optics, instruments, etc.
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[0022] The idea of this new planar geometry is to enable light to propagate within the hologram at thousands of wavelengths, greatly increasing the possibilities for manipulating light.
[0023] Digital planar holography advantageously combines the possibility to write arbitrary holograms with long optical paths within the hologram. The final technical hurdle is a good quality blank planar waveguide. The waveguide must be about 1 micron thick, transparent, and very uniform in order to transmit light without distortion. This final condition is the biggest limitation, but it is mainly solved by the optics industry making arrayed waveguide gratings for use as fiber optic communication devices. After the problems associated with the creation of sub-wavelength patterns have been resolved due to the development of modern microlithography methods, the successful implementation of digital planar holography is only left with the problem of determining the pattern to be written in or...
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